Gmail - Auto-hide read labels

After introducing into Gmail the possibility of hiding rarely used shortcuts and displaying only the necessary ones, few people could use it to the necessary extent, because you don’t see new letters if you have to “skip incoming messages” in the filter, and the label itself is hidden.
Now, Labs has added a new feature, “Hide read labels.” When it is turned on, all labels with unread messages will be automatically displayed, all without — hidden in the “more ...” submenu, except for those that you have explicitly directed you to be constantly hidden.

For me personally, it still remains an inconvenience that even those custom labels that are clearly indicated to be always visible are hidden. A combination of these two functions would be much better. For without this option, you have to keep a whole bunch of rarely used, but important shortcuts, so as not to miss the letter, and when turned on, you cannot see those labels where the letters have already been read but not yet fully processed (